| Giant Eagle Expands Popular Generic Prescription Program and Now Offers '400 for $4'
Continuing to deliver upon its commitment to improving the health and wellness of its customers, supermarket retailer Giant Eagle, Inc. today announced that effective this Thursday, November 8, 2007, the company will expand its popular $4 generic prescription medication program drugs to a total of more than 400. .
H-2A Temporary Agricultural Visas
The H-2A temporary agricultural visa is a nonimmigrant visa which allows foreign nationals to enter the U.S. to carry out temporary or seasonal agricultural labor or services. Given estimates that more than half of America �s agricultural workers are undocumented immigrants, the use of the H-2A visa is becoming more and more important. What are employers required to do to obtain workers on H-2A visas? Generally, employers must satisfy two criteria to hire nonimmigrant workers when filing an application with the USCIS: The employer must show that able, willing, and qualified US workers are not available at the time and place needed The employer must show that an adverse effect on wages or working conditions of similarly employed US workers will not result from the employment of foreign workers Who may file an application for an H-2A visa? An agricultural company or employer who expect a shortage of U.S.
New lawsuit filed to stop moth plan
SAN JOSE -- In a last-ditch effort to stop aerial spraying aimed at eliminating the light brown apple moth, three Santa Cruz County women are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Food and Agriculture, saying their civil rights have been violated and that they have not received due process. .
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Many Yemenis are making use of various unconventional therapies in order to restore well-being. However most of them, especially people living in rural areas, depend on traditional herbal medicine for the treatment of different diseases, according to a new Sana'a University study. The study, entitled Alternative Medicine in Yemen, was conducted by researchers in the Faculty of Medicine and Health science on 2,000 people in seven Yemeni governorates to evaluate the knowledge, trends, and uses of alternative medicine in Yemen. Herbal medicine, also called homeopathic medicine or phytomedicine, uses plant seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or flowers for medicinal purposes. Conventional medicine is medicine as practiced by holders of medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy degrees and by their allied health professionals, such as physiotherapists, psychologists, and nurses.
Michael Fumento: The anti-vaccine lobby makes us sick -- literally
THE VACCINE preservative thimerosal has jumped the safety hurdle. Again. So indicates a recent large epidemiological study in the New England Journal of Medicine. "Again" is the problem, though. One huge study after another has cleared thimerosal as a cause of child developmental disorders, and specifically autism, but there is a powerful lobby that couldn't care less. Thimerosal, used in vaccines since the 1930s but phased out in 2001 for everything but flu shots, comprises about 50 percent ethyl mercury. It neither contains nor degrades into the pollutant methyl mercury that pregnant mothers are warned about in fish. (Though that said, the Maternal Nutrition Group, a coalition of nutrition groups and experts including several federal agencies, recently released a report calling on pregnant women to eat far more fish, citing in part a low risk from methyl mercury.) In this latest study, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers evaluated more than 1,000 children between the ages of seven and 10 who were exposed to various levels of thimerosal at different early stages in life.
Scott County: Group OKs consolidated dispatch
An intergovernmental agreement creating a consolidated dispatching center came one step closer to completion Tuesday with approval by the Scott County Emergency Management Commission.The commission approved the agreement 5-1, with Maysville Fire Chief Scott Roenfeldt casting the lone dissenting vote.The Davenport and Bettendorf city councils and Scott County Board of Supervisors are scheduled to vote on the agreement to create the Scott Emergency Communications Center (SECC) at a combined meeting Dec. 12.Roenfeldt wasn’t against consolidated dispatching, but opposed the agreement because he would like to see representation from rural communities. The agreement calls for a caucus of mayors of the outlying communities to choose one mayor to serve on the governing board. Roenfeldt would like to see four mayors serving on it."I think consolidated dispatching is good for Scott County," he said.Along with the rural mayor, the proposed governing board would include the mayors of Davenport and Bettendorf, the chairman of the board of supervisors and the executive director of Medic EMS.Scott County Sheriff Dennis Conard said a concern that the rural areas of the county don’t have a strong enough voice on the governing board is unfounded, saying the board will work for consensus as it moves forward.Rural communities are represented by the mayor, but also have representation by the Scott County board chairman, while the county’s largest city has one vote, Scott County administrator Ray Wierson said.Bettendorf Fire Chief Gerry Voelliger called the intergovernmental agreement "a framework document.""It is the first official step toward consolidated dispatch in Scott County," he said.
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